DALLAS – Kings goaltender Jonathan Quick decided against undergoing surgery for a groin injury suffered in last week’s season-opener and instead had a different, non-invasive procedure done Tuesday, the team said Wednesday.

Officially, Quick is sidelined indefinitely because of a lower-body injury.

The next question facing the Kings is whether to continue to go with Jeff Zatkoff and/or Peter Budaj in goal or to pursue a trade for another goalie.

Several goalies could be available, including J.F. Berube of the New York Islanders and Ondrej Pavelec of the Winnipeg Jets.

“It’s a tough situation,” Budaj said. “Jonathan is arguably the best goalie in the world.”

The Kings have salary-cap issues, which allow them only about $1.5 million to add to their payroll. They could gain cap relief by placing Quick on the long-term injured reserve. He was placed on injured reserve last week, after he was hurt in an Oct. 12 loss to the San Jose Sharks.

Injured reserve, for which there is no salary-cap relief, is for players who will miss a minimum of seven days. Long-term injured reserve is for players expected to miss 10 games or more and 24 days.

Berube has two distinct advantages over Pavelec.

First, he makes a modest $650,000 for 2016-17 and will become a restricted free agent at season’s end. Second, the 24-year-old is a former Kings prospect lost to the Islanders via waivers last season. The Kings could send a draft pick to land him and absorb his salary-cap hit easily.

Pavelec’s salary-cap hit for 2016-17 is nearly $4 million, however. The Kings would probably insist the Jets retain a chunk of his salary for this season, which could complicate trade talks. Winnipeg also could decide it would rather not bail out a Western Conference rival in need of help.

Pavelec, 28, is eligible to become an unrestricted free agent July 1.

Berube and Pavelec each began the season as his team’s No. 3 goalie. Berube served as the Islanders’ backup this season, but hasn’t played in a regular-season game. Pavelec began the season with the Manitoba Moose, the Jets’ American Hockey League team.

“The (goalie) coaches there, Billy (Ranford) and Kim (Dillabaugh) at the time, they really made me the goalie I am today,” Berube told the Long Island newspaper Newsday when asked about the possibility of a trade to the Kings. “I owe a lot of credit to them.

“At the same time, I’m here and I want to focus on this team. Whatever happens, happens, but I haven’t spoken to my agent about it. It’s something I don’t really want to focus on because I want to be here (in New York) and focus on here right now.”

The Kings have started the season 0-3-0 and have given up 12 goals going into Thursday’s game against the Dallas Stars. Zatkoff replaced Quick for the second period of a 2-1 loss to the Sharks, then started losses of 4-2 and 6-3 to the Philadelphia Flyers and Minnesota Wild.

Zatkoff’s struggles were apparent to Wild coach Bruce Boudreau.

“All I know is if I was playing, I’d shoot from everywhere,” Boudreau said after Minnesota scored five goals on only 16 shots in two periods Tuesday against Zatkoff. “When you know that you’ve got a goalie who’s a little bit rattled, you’ve got to get pucks at the net.”

Budaj replaced Zatkoff to start the third period Tuesday and stopped nine shots.

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